[mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement) of types and tempos

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Jan 25, 2008 10:07 AM, Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Part two of a trio of messages tonight...  splitting these to keep the
> discussions easily separated.
>
> In CSG, we indicate worktype and tempo like this:
>
> I. Rondo. Allegro
>
> When it's like that, it's easy.  But several things can make it
> complicated, and neither CSG nor OperaStyle currently really gives clear
> guidance.
>
> Several cases (the first alternate in each is my own preference):
>
> 1) Multi-word types/tempos: sentence style or English caps?
>      a) Tempo di minueto / Tempo di Minueto
>      b) Tema con variazioni / Tema con Variazioni
>      c) Rondo alla turca / Rondo alla Turca
>      d) Andante grazioso / Andante Grazioso
>      e) Rondeau en polonaise / Rondeau en Polonaise
>      etc.
>
> 2) Multiple types and or tempos for the same movement:
>     a) Rondo. Allegro - andante / Rondo. Allegro - Andante
>     b) Rondo. Allegro & Minore. Allegro di molto / Rondo. Allegro -
> minore. allegro di molto / etc.
>     etc.


I would do like you, I assumed Italian capitalization was the rule here.



> These next two are more of a mess...
>
> 3) Minuet & Trio - easy, until you mix in tempos.  How do we want to
> integrate these?
>
> Minuet. Andante & Trio
> Minuet. Andante & Trio. Allegro
> Minuet. Andante - più molto & Trio
> Minuet. Andante - più molto & Trio. Andante - allegro - primo tempo


I don't understand your question here.



> 4) Tema con variazioni
>
> Some releases split track each variation.  Some themes have identified
> tempos.  Some variations have different tempos, sometimes even tempo changes
> within a variation.  Most of these have not just one or two variations, but
> up to as many as twelve...
>
> Tema. Andante con variazioni
> Tema. Andante & Variations I - IX
> Tema. Andante & Variations I - X & Variation XI. Adagio cantabile &
> Variation XII. Allegro
> Tema. Andante & Variation I & Variation II & Variation III & Variation IV
> & Variation V & Variation VI & Variation VII & Variation VIII & Variation IX
> & Variation X & Variation XI. Adagio cantabile & Variation XII. Allegro
> etc.
>
> The first reads as ugly to my eye, and we miss the tempos in the last two
> variations.
> The second we still miss the tempos.
> The third reads as a decent compromise to me.
> The fourth gets obscenely long very very quickly, especially if you have
> intra-variation tempo changes.


I  agree here also. Not very easy to explain, but this should not happen
very often.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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